The U. S. Department of Defense has awarded a $20 million contract to Abbott Laboratories to improve traumatic brain injury testing for military personnel, according to a Pentagon report. The report details that the $19.5 million ...
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A University of Pittsburgh research team recently published results in the journal PLOSOne regarding omega-3's ability to improve memory. A major difference from other memory studies was their subjects were young, 18 to 25, non-smoking ...
In March 2010, high school student Bobby Ghassemi was taken out of his crashed vehicle and airlifted to a nearby Virginia hospital more dead than alive with severe brain trauma. He was so much more dead than alive that the physician who ...
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US-based IT company IBM and Excel Medical Electronics (EME) are collaborating with The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Department of Neurosurgery in a study to test the effectiveness of a real-time alarm, which is designed to ...
Tags: Brain Injuries Alarm, Health, Medicine
It seems to be generally accepted by the medical profession that in the event of a heart attack, stroke or brain trauma it significantly improves the prognosis for the patient if the brain can be cooled at the earliest possible opportunity. ...